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A specialist liver clinical pathological conference at a non‐transplant centre: a potential model for improving discrepancy rates

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In 2016 you published a study by Paterson et al assessing the value of specialist review of liver biopsies over a 4-year period1 . Reporting of medical liver biopsies is a… Click to show full abstract

In 2016 you published a study by Paterson et al assessing the value of specialist review of liver biopsies over a 4-year period1 . Reporting of medical liver biopsies is a challenging area and discrepancy rates between specialist and general pathologists is high2,3 . Our centre, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), contributed a significant minority of the cases included in that paper, following which we instigated a specialist liver clinical pathological conference (CPC), involving local hepatologists and a regional specialist liver pathologist (co-author of the above study). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Keywords: specialist liver; liver clinical; discrepancy rates; clinical pathological; pathological conference

Journal Title: Histopathology
Year Published: 2018

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